The High Dials are a Montreal-based band centred around original members Trevor Anderson (singer-songwriter) and Robbie MacArthur (guitars). The current, longtime line-up includes Max Hebert (drums), Charles Pham-Dang (keys) and Simon Quevillon (bass).
The band’s sound is shaded with psychedelic, post-punk and folk rock influences yet rooted in a timeless pop sensibility.
Over 20+ years, they’ve released six records and toured North America, the UK, Ireland and Latin America, including long-running support gigs with Brian Jonestown Massacre and festival appearances at Osheaga, SXSW, The Great Escape and Focus Wales. They’ve also had the privilege of collaborating with sixties legends Rod Argent (The Zombies) and Andrew Oldham (Immediate Records/The Rolling Stones)! High Dials’ songs have featured in various films and TV series—several can be heard in the Netflix series House of Cards.
The band’s most recent album is Primitive Feelings (2019). In a 4-star review, Shindig! praised its “heady, intoxicating set of tunes…(with) spiralling acid-rock guitars over loose-limbed drumbeats and funk-infused basslines.” Brooklyn Vegan noted the influence everything “from The Velvet Underground to Edwin Starr to The Jesus & Mary Chain and Primal Scream.”
To mark its 20-year anniversary in 2023, Hook & Prayer Records re-released the band’s debut album A New Devotion with remixes and lost tracks—a neo-psychedelic touchstone that Tinnitus called “a timeless (and near flawless) bit of magic.”
